First, here is a great new piece by Eric Alterman, in The Nation: “Washington Goes to War (with Howard Dean).”
An excerpt:
addam Hussein may be out of his spider hole, but
Washington’s real enemy is still at large. His name: “Howard
Dean”–and nobody in America poses a bigger threat to the city’s
sense of its own importance. New Republic writer Michelle
Cottle returned from maternity leave to find Washington fit for a
“Tarantino-style blood bath,” with the Democratic front-runner cast
as a “paleoliberal…a heartless conservative…too na
